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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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The U of Washington was a fertile field and there was a lithographed guide book.
Fixed it for ya...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Todd, thanks, I forgot that Gutenberg did lithos.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I appreciate the tradition, but someone here must have climbed more than a few feet up the Red Square Chimneys. ???
Actually, Steve G. or Clint; do you have a copy of the UW Buildering Guide? I know I've seen it over someone's shoulder at the rock.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Did I miss it or has nobody mentioned Stanford? I think it already has it's own thread already.
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Rocky IV
Social climber
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Reid hall at MSU bozeman is sick if you like doing the same move over and over and over and...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I must say that after a Friday night walk up and down our Main St. in the newest University of Cal town there are few opps here in the main thouroghfare.
This is one which I managed tonight, not much, but for an aging (descriptions of has-wooses abound) climber who has no clue to what he dan do, but has had an Angry Orchard and a Fireball chaser, too, this was purty im-preee-ive.
Up, up, reach the top, down, slowly,
You must not drop.
Climb it all the way to the top.
On the way down, step lighter and stop
To look for those toe holds you have forgot.
Step on the pavement, light as a feather,
Now knowing whether if or whenever
You will re-live the buildering arts,
Like when you were younger and throwing darts
At a pub on San Pablo in the East Bay
And jamming that crack next to the door, eh?
College and knowledge they go a-crawledge
When you get the beer that cost you so dear
Youth will be served in year after year.
Architecture.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Knowledge, crawledge, fraternity of the keg, basically.
Cheers and happy landings by degrees!!!!!!!!!
--Sutch A. Thread
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alxj
Trad climber
Calgary, AB
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This is a photo from 1994.
A bunch of us spent many evenings avoiding the Vancouver rains and UBC exams honing our finger strength on this wall of the Frank Forward building.
We did get ejected a few times by security guards over the years but in general we managed to go unnoticed for a couple years.
No doubt other climbers have used this wall over the years.
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drapnea
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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When I was at UW I remember the guidebook to UW being passed around. Wish I had a copy of it.
Also I remember that in the late 90s/early 2000s there was a topout of the Red Square chimney route that required a fire truck rescue because they were too freaked out or tired to down climb the 80-100 feet back down.
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drapnea
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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Found the online guide to University of Washington (the University Range)
http://www.alpinedave.com/uw_buildering/
and info specifically on the University Range's Red Square Towers which are actually much taller than I remember:
http://www.alpinedave.com/uw_buildering/climbs/redsquare_towers.html
Funny description:
"This route has been the the subject of much controversy over the years, and many have been arrested for scaling this forbidden spire. The route was bolted every 10 ft or so in the 70s with hangerless 1/4" bolts. Most would forego a rope and solo up and down the 180 feet. However, during a 1999 ascent which lead to a public arrest, the lower 3/4 of the route's bolts were chopped. There is now only about two or three remaining bolts near the top. Be careful when scaling these towers due to PI patrols every 15 minutes."
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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East Hall in Kalamazoo, MI, is situated on a big hill overlooking the town and its opiated seasonally affective disordered drones. I got some kisses here, once, and circumnavigated the arch several times. v1R seems fair
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Darwin, some loonies have been waay up those chimneys, trust me.
What I want to know is who has done Brunelleschi's dome? How rad would that be, assuming you got away without a trip to the Hotel Medici?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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The student union building at San Jose State University has these wicked chimneys, each with a big bomb-bay roof at the top and scary mantle onto the roof. The chimneys are the perfect width.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:30pm PT
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U-Village just east the the University of Washington campus just put up a new parking structure in its east edge, and I always check out new concrete structures when they are close-by (10 min from my house). These "cracks" are both about 15-20'. The first one is perfect fists for me *when I wear jammies*, so the FFA awaits someone better or with larger fists than I have (3 and 3/4"?). The second OW is too narrow for me to get a real chicken wing, too narrow to get my hips into and my heel-toe is way oblique and painful (8''?). I could hang in it for a few seconds, but I'm getting over a bad cold and just couldn't force myself to have the energy to try to move up. I suspect a short small person with small feet would hike it. My compliments to the construction crew. There were many clones of each crack, and they all seem the same size. I'm going back to try both again. They were dry on this rainy morning.
left- and right-facing versions.
straight-in only
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